# Date: 1904-10

RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN COMMITTEES
of the slavsky Committee, sent and received at the C.C. more than 3 months ago, has still not been published.3

Conference of representatives of the southern committees—the Odessa, Nikolaev, and Ekaterinoslav committees and the Southern Bureau.

IV.

An assembly of representatives of 3 southern committees—the Odessa, Nikolaev, and Ekaterinoslav committees—having discussed the decision of the C.C. concerning the dissolution of the Southern Bureau and its relation to this latter, arrived at the following conclusion:

Taking into account that the operational capacity of the Southern Bureau and the activity it has demonstrated in coordinating the work of the southern committees could in no way have provided grounds for its dissolution;

taking into account that the C.C., at the moment of making its decision, could have known nothing of the eight months of activity of the Bureau (during all this time the Bureau had no relations with the C.C., and the C.C. did not demand any reports from it before its closure) and that the C.C. did not deem it possible to propose that the Southern Bureau enter into the composition of the new Southern Bureau organized by it, the assembly recognized that the sole ground for the dissolution of the Bureau was the disagreement between the Bureau and the C.C. on the question of convening the III Congress and the agitation conducted by the Bureau for the Congress, which is confirmed by the explanations of the representative of the C.C., who announced its dissolution.

Such an attitude of the C.C. toward agitation for the Congress compels us to remind it: according to the Party Statute, agitation for the Congress is an inalienable right of every Party member, whatever function he may discharge; by depriving Party members of this right, the C.C. loses all lawful ground beneath itself. Party duty requires of the C.C., in the event that it does not support this agitation, an absolutely neutral attitude toward it. Warning therefore the C.C. against attempts to exert pressure on Party members conducting agitation for the Congress, and expressing our complete confidence in the closed C.C. South Russian Bureau, the assembly of representatives of the above-named committees hopes that the C.C. will correct its political error and will withdraw the unlawful decision on the dissolution of the Bureau.

Conference of the southern committees—the Odessa, Nikolaev, and Ekaterinoslav committees.